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May 20th, 2008

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What to Watch for: Series Shifts Back to Beantown for Game 5

May 15th, 2008

You had to love Boston faithful Bill Simmons’ article this morning on ESPN.com. If you didn’t, then you’re just not a fan of sports and/or sports writing.
Cavs fans may be more upset about the fact that the turnaround in this best-of-seven is being looked at more as a “Boston collapse” than a “Cleveland surge.” Looking at this series nationally as it stands right now, the overwhelming response to the series being tied 2-2 is about the Celtics not being able to win on the road. Heck, they can go 0-12 away from the Garden and still win the championship (although it would take going to seven games in every series and 16-0 at home).
And it doesn’t help as far as getting national recognition when LeBron isn’t doing much of anything. Before that resounding dunk in KG’s mug, LeBron’s contributions to this series were limited to making others around him better and locking down defensively. Although that’s the beauty of LeBron’s game, this Sportscenter world is not going to appreciate it.
So now this series has become all about “That Dunk” and Boston’s road woes. What it should be is a testament to just how much head coach Mike Brown has grown in three years as a strategist and defensive mastermind who has made some incredible adjustments in this best-of-seven series. And just as Simmons used his space to bash Doc Rivers, it would only be appropriate for me to give the lion’s share of the credit on Cleveland’s part to Mike Brown.
Help on perimeter defense. Brown’s adjustments have brought out the best in Delonte West and LeBron James, as both have brought good help defense to expose Boston’s weaknesses. Even when Rajon Rondo’s jumper was falling in Game 4, the C’s still couldn’t pull it out. If you’re a Boston fan, don’t bet on Rondo hitting jumpers like that for the rest of this series, if at any time ever again.

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Tuned In: 'Gilmore Girls' creator's 'Return' is a disappointing go …

March 24th, 2008

You know Fox hates your new comedy series when …
A) Fox cuts the episode order.
B) Fox schedules your show for Friday night, a dead night for broadcast TV.
C) Fox promises to launch your show after “American Idol” before sending it to Friday night Siberia, then changes its mind on the post-”Idol” launch, sticking you with nothing but that Friday death slot.
D) All of the above.
Alas, for Amy Sherman-Palladino, the answer is D. “The Return of Jezebel James” (8 p.m. tomorrow, WPGH) was supposed to mark the triumphant return of Sherman-Palladino, creator of the beloved “Gilmore Girls,” who left that series a year before it reached its conclusion. Instead, the show will launch with a whimper. Sadly, it deserves no better.
Miscast and only intermittently funny, “Jezebel James” misfires on all cylinders.
Indie film actress Parker Posey plays Sarah, a childless, more selfish Lorelai Gilmore. Sarah is another Sherman-Palladino woman who speaks in rat-a-tat-tat zingers. She’s sophisticated but daffy and not always likable.
Sarah works as a children’s book editor, and one of her books shares its title with this comedy series. Viewers learn in the pilot that Jezebel James was the imaginary friend of Sarah’s estranged sister, Coco (Lauren Ambrose).
If there’s a good reason for naming the show after this throwaway bit of trivia, it’s not clear from two episodes sent for review. It’s certainly doesn’t play into the main plot of the show: Sarah can’t conceive a child and asks Coco to be her surrogate.
At first, Coco is appalled, fearing a scene out of “Alien.” (Because this is a Sherman-Palladino show, pop culture references abound.)
“Not exactly like ‘Alien,’ ” Sarah says. “It’ll have a different exit strategy.”
Posey is curiously flat. Scenes only come to life in the pilot once Ambrose enters with her patented, angry-young-woman routine. Honed over the years on “Six Feet Under,” Ambrose’s fiery reactions give the show some spark, even if I never quite believe any of the characters as real people.

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Updated: One Tree Hill, Supernatural, Gossip Girl, Top Model and …

March 19th, 2008

The CW just released an official announcement that Supernatural, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Gossip Girl and America's Next Top Model have been picked up for next season. Yes, we will see all these shows in the fall for the 2008-09 season!
Happy Snoopy dance with me, will ya?
The episode orders for each of these series remains "TBD," but I can assure you that the cast of OTH is celebrating the pickup of its sixth season—most likely at Hilarie Burton's house—right now in Wilmington, North Carolina. I just ran into Sophia Bush at dinner in West Hollywood a few days ago and had a nice chat about how the show is really, as she put it, "in its groove" this season, and how she and the cast feel they have a good thing going and hope it continues. Word. Ask and ye shall receive.
I also just checked in with Gossip boss Josh Schwartz, and he tells me, "Didn't know [the pickup] was happening today but I guess—when the show is Gossip Girl—reading it online is as good! Stephanie and I couldn't be happier or more grateful to the CW for all their support. We've had a blast working with this cast and crew, and shooting in NYC has been awesome. We're excited about what's to come in the next five episodes and season two." Josh's other new show, Chuck, is also expected back this fall, so he's just on a roll. Whee!
And while Gossip Girl and Top Model seemed no-brainers for fall, Supernatural and Smallville fans are most assuredly breathing a huge sigh of relief at these pickups, since the fates of both series have been in limbo as of late. Super boss Eric Kripke knows he owes a great deal to you fans and your very vocal support efforts, especially in this here wacky world o' web. "Our online community is a rowdy and boisterous one," he says. "And we love them for it."

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The Wire Season 5 Episode 8

February 19th, 2008

Every year, it seems, there’s one artist who captures the popular imagination and becomes the de facto singer of choice at the American Idol auditions. It’s usually someone popular and it’s usually someone that no Idol wannabe, not even the eventual winner, can match for high notes.
This year, that singer was Celine Dion. Every time a would-be Idol walked in the door and answered the question, “What are you going to sing?” with, “Power of Love/I’m Your Angel/fill-in-the-blank by Celine Dion,” you could practically see Simon Cowell’s eye-roll before it happened.
Of course, Dion is the flavour of the moment.
Tonight, in Dion’s first concert since wrapping her five-year run in Sin City, Dion serenades the crowd at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles with some of her greatest hits, including The Power of Love, River Deep Mountain High and, from her new album, Taking Chances.
Tonight’s concert special is called Celine Dion: That’s Just the Woman in Me, and as the title suggests, it’s a little more intimate than the usual chest-thumping arena show. Dion even takes time to answer questions from the audience, though it’s a safe bet the questions won’t get too pushy. There’s only so much ground that can be covered in an hour, after all. 9 p.m., CTV, CBS
Nip/Tuck, FX’s cutting-edge cable drama that is easy to admire but hard to like, settles into its regular Friday home after debuting on a Sunday.
Tonight’s episode, the third of Nip/Tuck’s fifth and most recent season — 14 episodes will air in all — first aired on FX in November, and is being shown here for the first time.
Dr. Sean (Dylan Walsh) fends off the increasingly heated advances of Eden Lord (AnnaLynne McCord), while juggling Julia’s (Joely Richardson) emotional needs. Nip/Tuck has always been something of a high-wire act. It’s clever and well-written, but it might just be one of the most emotionally violent dramas on TV. Few programs are more sexually explicit, or disturbing, which makes it all the more remarkable that it is airing on a mainstream, mass-audience broadcast network. 10 p.m., CTV
Three to see:
- Wedding bells, they are a-ringin’ on a two-hour outing of Las Vegas that might be the five-year-old series’ last. It isn’t all roses and tiaras, however. This is a wedding Vegas-style, which means Danny (Josh Duhamel) and Piper (Camille Guaty) are taken hostage in an art heist gone wrong — don’t they always? — and before it’s over, one of the cast regulars is being fitted for a funeral suit. Bummer. 9 p.m., Global, NBC
- Turner Classic Movies continues its month-long salute to Oscar with the offbeat 1970 western Little Big Man, in which Salish Chief Dan George landed a supporting-actor Oscar nomination. A classy performance in a classic film. 5 p.m., TCM
- A beauty queen, Cassandra Whitehead tests her wits against 100 trivia buffs in tonight’s pop culture-themed 1 vs. 100. The supposed pop culture experts include Ross the Intern from The Tonight Show, Richard Rubin from Beauty and the Geek and a trio of Playboy Playmates. 8 p.m., E!, NBC


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